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Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing
yyzmcleod writes with this excerpt: "A research team at Queen's University has created a human-scale 3D hologram pod that allows people in different locations to videoconference as if they are standing in front of each other. Called TeleHuman, the technology is the creation of professor Roel Vertegaal, director of the Human Media Lab, and his graduate team at the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Similar to the Star Trek holodeck, participants can walk around the 3D hologram of the remote person they're talking to and view them from all sides. More importantly, the system captures 3D visual cues that 2D video miss, such as head orientation, gaze and overall body posture."
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More of a circular display. Cool, but not yet practical.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
We can now teleconference with Tupac?
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Dude, you're not that new here! You know it's going to be stupid porn jokes.
Actually, I don't see many business meeting applications - except engineering meeting to show 3D protypes or parts or something.
But porn? Hell yeah! I KNOW where these professor can get funding - in cash - and extremely happy encounters during fundraisers.
It will only work for a single person.
Would hate to be the technician that has to clean the equipment every night though
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I can imagine the sales people and their "gestures" mid meeting being picked up by the other side.
Of course, there are other uses for this; medical, teaching, adult...
Suddenly, teleconferencing with someone who telecommutes from home seems like a dangerous proposition. One must be ever vigilant that what has been seen cannot be unseen! Do they include Peril-O-Matic glasses?
...will it blend?
Kinect 3D Full Body "Hologram"
...until they use it to make porn
The medical industry has been using 3D voxel based imaging for a long time now, and this looks like a neat extension of existing techniques. The output looks quite grainy but this is probably partly down to kinect resolution, and partly down to compression. Based on the video my guess is that the voxel resolution is somewhere between 128x128x128 and 256x256x256 so worst case you could be looking at 10x more data than HD video at full frame rate.
This looks like a great little R&D project, but one has to wonder what the best market for this kind of live 3D videoconferecing would be - perhaps getting feedback on your golf swing or dance steps by a remote coach? It likely won't come cheap, and a decent (say 10 Mbps) network link is almost certainly going to be a requirement at both ends for decent performance.
That's no hologram. It's a French pissoir!
Can I have sex with it too?
I haven't finished the QLA yet!
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Seriously, why bother with this sort of thing at this point?
It would be far more efficient and practical if we just use head mounted displays + motion sensors. The technology already exists for this, all it needs is more horsepower / better software to drive it.
Sure a huge impractical bulky expensive non portable box would remove the need for glasses, but its still going to be big, expensive and you are stuck sitting in front of it.
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Or as Carrie Fisher might say I only need to mess up my meds to talk to virtual people
This is nothing more than a VR cylindrical display. Works like VR glasses but costs 10 times as much.
If it fits in an R2 unit it should be helpful. It could be our only hope. Or a new hope, at least.
You have to make sure it doesn't skip too much. You might break your screwdriver getting it to play.
So does this mean we'll get 3D teleconferencing with Hatsune Miku? (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luv_SNo1f0Y )
Sounds good to me.
That, sir, is no holodeck! Where am I supposed to put my penis?
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That it is clearly stated this was Queen's University Kingston Ontario and not the potato university in Ireland where this was developed.
Sounds like it's even more useless than our current telepresence rooms.
We've got expensive telepresence rooms all over our company, but they're useless as far as I'm concerned. First of all, they didn't even bother to mount whiteboards on the walls, just a couple of easel style ones. Second, when you stand up to draw a diagram the fixed position cameras can't pick up anything above the middle to bottom of your chest (depending on how tall you are) and cut out the top half of even a tiny easel style whiteboard. If I wanted to be limited to screen sharing from my computer I don't need the telepresence room at all.
What sort of meeting is all about people staring at each other and walking in circles around each other examining each other from every angle? It doesn't appear that this cylindrical display is suitable for showing anything more than a single person just standing there.
I guess it would be useful for mail order prostitutes if there is such a thing, but I can't think of any other reason anyone would walk 360 degrees around another person examining them.
As far as I'm concerned a face to face meeting means standing up, drawing diagrams on the largest whiteboard available or at the very least drawing on sheets of paper and sliding them back and forth across the table.
If you're just going to show me Powerpoint slides, I'll sit in my home office and watch your screen sharing program or better yet just email me the Powerpoint. I don't need to stare at a fixed HD camera image of your face, nor do I need to walk around a "hologram" and stare at your butt.
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"It's not a hologram, it's just Pepper's Ghost."
I am beginning to feel like I should put that on my tombstone.
Most of my bosses would not fit in that tube. Maybe they should make larger sizes.
From TFA:
In addition to TeleHuman, the Queen’s researchers have also developed BodiPod, an interactive 3D anatomy model of the human body. The model can be explored 360 degrees around the model through gestures and speech interactions.
When people approach the Pod, they can wave in thin air to peel off layers of tissue. In X-ray mode, as users get closer to the Pod they can see deeper into the anatomy, revealing the model’s muscles, organs and bone structure. Voice commands such as “show brain” or “show heart” will automatically zoom into a 3D model of a brain or heart.
Oh, now they have to combine the two. Nothing like idly flicking away layers of tissue from the person at the other end of the teleconference while they're nattering on. And, you'll finally be able to verify that some people actually do have a heart.
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That's a cylindrical screen.
Clever... but who really needs this? I guess I just don't understand the actual need for it. Why would I buy a special cylindrical screen to represent objects this way when I can get nearly the same experience by having a normal flat screen? Sure, I can walk behind someone and look to see what the back of their head looks like... why is that useful to me?
I suspect flat screens are going to be the norm for the foreseeable future.
Still... clever idea...
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"Similar to the Star Trek holodeck". Apparently the Design Engineering Staff has never researched the design of a holodeck. The technologies could not be more different if one tried.
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Finally, a made up body for a made up corporate entity. A "person" who exists only in the mind. Take your lawyers and sue that,...I dare you!
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
I just watched Iron Sky yesterday, where something like this was portrayed. "Wonder how long until that is common?" I thougt to myself.
Now the real question is will it ever become mainstream?
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It's a disaster. Skywalker, we're after.
I nearly jumped out of my seat, as just recently I was making a prediction that animated holograms will not possible for... long time, and now this.
But this is not a hologram! Even then, as an invention it is embarrassingly underwhelming. You have to stand inside a claustrophobic tube for it work? really? Please take back all your "visual cues", I prefer plain old LCD monitor.
Would hate to be the technician that has to clean the equipment every night though
Especially when it is a blow up doll.
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The article uses the word "hologram" over and over, and comparisons to Star Trek, but the PR video avoids the term 'hologram' and uses "projection" instead. Hologram technology is not used, and people expecting features found in any hologram (paralax viewing, different views from multiple simultaneous points) will be sorely disappointed.
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There is a genie in a bottle sort of aspect to it.
If we lived in a universe where these got deployed, there would be unnaturally 'hot' CG Saleswomen who would be motion and voice controlled by real people remotely and the marks, I mean the sales prospects would be free to walk around the tube to look at whatever they wanted as long as the sale was closing.
Creep-o-tube might be a good marketing name. Oh, wait, no we're supposed to say the opposite of what it really is.
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More like peeling of her clothes...
Actually, I don't see many business meeting applications
the obvious one is threatening your subordinates with violence and then disappearing at the meeting table, a la wesker, resident evil: extinction.
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